after our week in asheville, we moved on down the road to a little place just outside great smoky mountain national park. it was super cold and kind of not near much of anything else, so outside of our adventure to the park, we laid low mostly. firstly, we put up our christmas tree. i […]
north carolina
asheville nc week (long post).

after spending 5 weeks at home with the grandlidboms, getting back on the road was a tough transition for our posse. the super cold and often rainy weather conditions didn’t help matters. but we managed to find a few fun things to do and survived our first week back in the camper, near lovely asheville, […]
old salem and the zoowith the grandlidboms

my final blog post about our time in winston!! derek’s parents took the kids to old salem and the nc zoo while we were home. so here’s some pictures from that. firstly, old salem. only the girls went on this excursion. and… the zoo….
five weeks in winston-salem.

this morning, we bid farewell to our “hometown” of winston-salem after a five week visit with derek’s parents. we stayed in their driveway, and overtook their house. we completed some camper fixes and upgrades. we purged some clothes and toys and added new clothes and toys. we ate a lot. celebrated a lot. and spent […]
from hershey to home.

sorry for the very long overdue blogging. but this post will mostly explain why… when i left off, my parents were leaving us in hershey on a sunday morning. that afternoon, derek packed up to head out of town for a few days for work and we took him to the airport in philadelphia. it […]
queen city getaway before the getaway.

so. our camper wasn’t going to be ready friday. we were staying at derek’s mom’s house. they weren’t even there. we only had a couple of clothes changes with us. the situation was getting old. so, derek bought some points from his dad and booked us a fancy pants hotel in uptown charlotte for the […]